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Nearly a year ago, on January 2, 2012, eight Democrats in the House introduced a curious piece of legislation — H.R. 3741: Federal Death Penalty Abolition Act of 2013, which seeks to abolish the death penalty under federal law. But the bill has only just been discovered by the media, notably The Hill on Dec. 16, 2013.

HR 3741 specifically prevents anyone from being sentenced to death or put to death for all federal offenses that presently would bring the death penalty. Those offenses include:

Murder of a member of Congress, an important executive official, or a Supreme Court justice

Death resulting from offenses involving transportation of explosives, destruction of government property, or destruction of property related to foreign or interstate commerce

Murder committed by use of a firearm or armor piercing ammunition during commission of a crime of violence or a drug trafficking crime

Genocide

First degree murder

Murder by a federal prisoner

Murder of a state or local law enforcement official or other person aiding in a federal investigation; murder of a state correctional officer

Murder during a kidnapping

Murder during a hostage-taking

Murder with the intent of preventing testimony by a witness, victim, or informant

Mailing of injurious articles with intent to kill or resulting in death

Assassination or kidnapping resulting in the death of the president or vice-president

Murder for hire

Murder involved in a racketeering offense

Willful wreckage of a train resulting in death

Bank robbery-related murder or kidnapping

Murder related to a carjacking

Murder related to aggravated child sexual abuse

Murder related to sexual exploitation of children

Murder committed during an offense against maritime navigation

Murder committed during an offense against a maritime fixed platform

Murder using devices or dangerous substances in waters of the United States

Murder involving the transportation of explosive, biological, chemical, or radioactive or nuclear materials

Murder involving the destruction of vessel or maritime facility

Murder of a United States national in another country

Murder by the use of a weapon of mass destruction

Murder by act of terrorism transcending national boundaries

Murder involving torture

Murder involving a war crime

Murder related to a continuing criminal enterprise or related murder of a federal, state, or local law enforcement officer

Death resulting from aircraft hijacking

2. Non-homicide related offenses:

Espionage

Treason

3. Title 10: Offenses include

conspiracy

desertion

assaulting or willfully disobeying superior commissioned officer

mutiny or sedition

misbehavior before the enemy

subordinate compelling surrender

improper use of countersign

forcing a safeguard

aiding the enemy

spies

espionage

improper hazarding of vessel

misbehavior of sentinel

murder

death or injury of an unborn child

crimes triable by military commission

HR 3741 also states: “Anyone who was already sentenced to death for a federal crime prior to the bill taking effect would have that sentence reduced to a lifetime prison sentence without any possibility of parole.”

Nothing happens in politics without a reason. Certainly, members of the United States Congress, who are more preoccupied with fundraising for their reelection than with legislating, don’t propose bills without a reason.

We must therefore ask ourselves the reason for HR 3741. Is it motivated by Altruism, the highest and most selfless form of charity?

The answer, I submit, can be found in two clues:

1. The bill stretches credulity by the sheer scope of the crimes for the elimination of death penalty as punishment, including even for such egregious acts as genocide, mutiny, sedition, murder by use of a weapon of mass destruction (not even nuclear bomb or poison gas?), not to mention assassination of the U.S. president or vice-president, and of members of Congress. If genocide doesn’t warrant the death penalty (think Hitler), what would? Why not just abolish the death penalty altogether?

2. The bill’s sponsors:

They are eight — a sponsor and 7 co-sponsors:

Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Md.), the sponsor of HR 3741.

Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.)

Keith Ellison (D-Minn.): the first Muslim to be elected to the U.S. Congress.

Barbara Lee (D-Calif.)

Hank Johnson (D-Ga.): the bright bulb who thinks the island of Guam would tip over because of more U.S. troops.

Jan Schakowsky, 69, is the daughter of Jewish immigrants from, respectively, Lithuania and Russia. Not only is Schakowsky a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, she is the most “Progressive” leftwing socialist communist member of the current US Congress, with ratings of between 90 and 100 from “liberal and progressive” interest groups — which means she is a pro-abort. She even has the gall to call abortion a mere “health procedure” and wants more “federal funding,”that is, to have taxpayers pay even more for murder.

On March 11, 2004, Schakowsky’s husband, lobbyist Robert Creamer, the executive director of the Illinois Public Action Fund (IPAF), was indicted in federal court on 16 counts of bank fraud involving three alleged check-kiting schemes in the mid-1990s, leading several banks to experience shortfalls of at least $2.3 million. In August 2005, Creamer pleaded guilty to one count of failure to collect withholding tax, and bank fraud for writing checks with insufficient funds. On April 5, 2006, Creamer was sentenced to five months in prison and 11 months of house arrest. All of the money was repaid. Schakowsky was not accused of any wrongdoing despite her serving on IPAF’s board during the time the crimes were committed, and despite her co-signing with her husband their IRS filings.

José Serrano, 70, born in Puerto Rico, is the avowed socialist who repeatedly has introduced House resolutions to repeal the 22nd Amendment that limits U.S. presidents to two consecutive terms. He is widely regarded as one of the most “Progressive” members of Congress.

In other words, the bill’s eight sponsors, being all “Progressive” Democrats are not individuals notable for their sweetness and light and altruistic love of humanity. If they were, they wouldn’t be “Progressives” who support the death penalty for the most innocent and defenseless of human beings — the unborn.

The logical conclusion, therefore, is this:

HR 3741’s real objective is to eliminate the death penalty for TREASON because Democrats think Barack Hussein Obama may be arrested and tried for treason.

Like that fascinating impeachment email that the Democratic National Committee recently sent to its supporters, HR 3741 is motivated by the Demonrats’ real fear that their idol, President Lucifer, is in serious trouble.

Once again, for the 9th time since 1997, Serrano is trying to get Congress to abolish the two-term presidential limit that was established by the 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

On January 4, 2013, the first day of the 113th Congress, Serrano introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives, Joint Resolution 15: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the 22nd article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President.

This resolution was assigned to the House Judiciary Committee on January 4, 2013, which will consider it before possibly sending it on to the House or Senate as a whole.

According to govtrack.us, however, only 15% of House joint resolutions made it past committee and only 10% were enacted or passed in 2009–2010. Govtrack.us gives H.J.Res. 15 0% chance of getting past committee and 0% chance of being enacted or passed.

69-year-old José Enrique Serrano (photo above), a native of Puerto Rico, represents New York’s 15th congressional district in South Bronx, which is small in geographical size but densely populated and one of the few majority Hispanic districts in America.

A member of Congress’ Progressive Socialist Caucus, he is widely regarded as one of the most Progressive socialist members of Congress. Serrano has never won re-election with less than 92% of the vote, in what is considered one of the safest seats in Congress.